[Here is another fantastic idea from Beth Candy for using with the Pagebuilder. I'm not sure what newsgroups our pagebuilder correspondent has been lurking in but maybe I should find out ;-) Uncle Bob]
So you say you've loaded up your Scrapbook with photos of your online friends, your cat, and Uncle Bob, the nudist? Why not share them with us in a slide show?
View this sample of a fun and easy slide show, complete with background music.
Here's How to Make It
Go to the Page Builder Index.
Click on create
Select a background (I chose Blue)
Click on "Add an item"
Select "Picture"
Click on "Your Scrapbook"
Click on the photo of choice and fill in titles and caption (I kept the title the same for uniformity)
Click on done
Click on "Add an item"
Select "Heading"
Type this into the large text area:
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" Content="1;
URL=http://community.webtv.net/SecretAdmirer/doc1">
That first number 1 tells the browser to wait 1 second after the photo downloads and then move onto the next photo. 4 might be a better choice. The higher the number, the slower the show. You decide.
The doc1 might have to be changed. All of these pages are going to be untitled. If this is the first untitled page you are making, then WebTV will title it doc0. The 2nd untitled page will be doc1 and the next, doc2. We are working now on doc0 (the first non-titled page), and we want this page to "slide" to doc1.
If you have any previously untitled pages that are doc0, etc etc, then you are going to have to adjust this. If this is going to be doc7, make the page it will "slide" to: doc8.
I cut and pasted this piece of code:
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" Content="1;
URL=http://community.webtv.net/SecretAdmirer/doc1">
I did this so I could whip through this slide show process real quick. After I pasted it in the new pages, all I had to do was change 1 in doc1 to a 2 or a 3 or a 4 or a 5 and so on.
Press "Done"
Press "Publish"
Do not fill in title (Fill in the description, if you'd like)
Press "Continue"
Press "Publish"
Press "Done"
Press Index (on left)
Now you can make subsequent pages using the same format until you get all the pages of your slide show made.
Two more pages to go until we're set: the first one is your background sound page and the second is a frames page.
Background Sound
Click on "create"
Click on a page style (same as your photos page style)
Click on "Add an item"
Select "text"
Type in your HTML sound code.
For a very longwinded and most proper way to add sound and especially if you want to please PC users, here'sa tutorial.
I typed in this:
<bgsound src="http://www.angelfire.com/pa3/candy/images/sound29.mid">
Press "Done"
Press "publish"
Title it. [I called this one munsterwav]
Press "continue"
Press "Publish"
Press Done.
Because I titled it "munsterswav", the URL for my sound page is:
http://community.webtv.net/SecretAdmirer/munsterswav
Frames page
Frames have many variables. This is a Frames page for "this" use only. For a more detailed explanation of Frames, go to HTML Goodies and click on 'Frames'.
A Frames page is a directional page, or a blueprint. On a Frames page you make a floor plan. You write what you want to go where. A Frames page is not like a web site page. You need no colors or gifs or sound. Just directions.
On this Frames page, I am directing the first page to take up whatever space it needs. I'm writing an asterisk *. I could have written 20% to mean that I wanted it to take up the first 20%. But I didn't. Then I directed the bottom portion of my Frames page to take up 1% of the space.
This is my sound page. It will be underneath all the picture pages and can only take up 1% of our Frames space.
So in my Frameset, the top page is my first slideshow picture. The asterisk says it can take up whatever space it needs. The bottom page is my sound page. I have directed that it takes up 1% of the bottom space. Do not title this Frameset page.
That's all there is to making a simple slide show with the WebTV Page Builder! You can add your own personal style to jazz it up. You could use a nice introductory page and a splashier finish. Using different backgrounds could make great special effects. Have fun!
with love from, Beth Candy
